https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773559 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773559#c29 --- Comment #29 from Olaf Hering <ohering@suse.com> 2012-08-08 17:44:56 CEST --- (In reply to comment #28)
I'm not going to change the configs for the master branch to avoid the dependency so that you can install the kernel on a release it was never meant to deploy with. We update the kernel to depend on updated versions of the closely-related support tools all the time (e.g. udev) and this is no different.
It is very different: If most/all systems wont boot anymore because a newer tool is required then certainly adding a Requires (after careful consideration) to the kernel.rpm is acceptable. But in this specific case its just a simple and small module which is even automatically loaded on my sles11sp2 system. And we already have /etc/sysconfig/kernel:INITRD_MODULES, which would be the way to deal with this bugreport. And a even simpler fix would be to set CONFIG_HID_GENERIC=y Making it easy to verify if kernel bugs reported for a maintained release are fixed upstream should not be taken away. Up to now its as simple as zypper ar -c -f -n kernel_head \ http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/HEAD/standard kernel_head zypper ref zypper dup -l -r kernel_head # keep obsolete kernel-XXX-base So please remove the version dependency. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.